Stuck brew (1st one) - should I bottle?

[fbsf]

My first stuck brew. It was a sarah-hughes clone with a lot of crystal and mashed at 67.

OG was 1.052 and it went down to 1.020 and stayed there for a week. I tried the usual, upping the temp to 22°, giving it a good but gentle stir, and then adding a sachet of S04 to try and shift it.

Result? After another week....1.019.

Could it be that it's just gone as far as it's going to? If so, would I be best off bottling it, but with little or no priming?

 

[PD]

In my mind thats a bit too high for bottling and is risky.
Keep the beer warm and clean for a few more weeks.

 

[fbsf]

It's been three already... I suppose I could always rack it to secondary for a few more weeks...

 

[PD]

yes put it into a econdary, your safest bet.

 

[graysalchemy]

With that amount of crystal in it and the high mash temp I would say that that would be quite cloyingly sweet at that gravity though I may be wrong. Personally I would want it to drop to 1012 or 13, though because of the recipe it may not go lower than 1014-15.

 

[BarnsleyBrewer]

Is it clearing?? if it's nearly clear I'd bottle with 1/2 a teaspoonful of sugar!!

BB

 

[PD]

yea but your just an evil son of a .....

 

[fbsf]

Think I'll go with the secondary idea. I've got a 19L water-cooler bottle that has a tight-fitting bung/airlock, so as long as I properly sanitise it first, I shouldn't risk contamination too much, and it'd free up the FV/brewfridge. It'll also fill it well, as I reckon there should be around 19L there once the trub is taken into account.